Disney Offers Full Tuition to Cast Members

Disney has announced that they will offer free tuition for some 80,000 full and part-time hourly workers. This is not a tuition reimbursement, but is paid upfront with a reimbursement for textbooks.

Disney Cast Members will get full tuition assistance starting this fall!

The program is initially funded at $50 million dollars, but Disney plans to invest $25 million more annually to continually fund the program. They partnered with Guild Education (who also worked with Wal-Mart and Chipotle) to offer online courses throughout a network of schools. Guild will provide Cast Members with a personal coach to help navigate the process.

The tuition assistance program is called Disney Aspire and will launch this fall.

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